NCT03231488

The Effect of Mindfulness on Cognition and Emotion Following Acquired Brain Injury

The Effect of Mindfulness on Stimulus Over-selectivity and Selective Attention to Threat Following Acquired Brain Injury

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of East Anglia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Can mindfulness help with attention and emotion difficulties after a brain injury? People who have a brain injury often have problems with their attention and emotions. This study will see if a short mindfulness task can help with these problems. So far, there are not many studies looking at this and those that do show mixed results. When being mindful someone is aware of their attention and focuses on the present moment without passing judgement. This study focuses on over-selectivity and selective attention to threat after a brain injury. These are two concepts involved in attention and emotion problems. Over-selectivity is when someone focuses on only one thing around them and misses other key things. Selective attention to threat is when someone's focus is drawn to something around them that is seen as threatening. This has been shown to cause and keep anxious feelings going. This research will see if a short mindfulness task can help those with a brain injury by reducing overselectivity and selective attention to threat on two tasks. Participants will be recruited from NHS and non-NHS brain injury services. The study will take around two hours to complete for each participant. In summary, this study looks to see if a specific mindfulness exercise can be helpful for specific attention and emotion problems. It could be a first step in making treatment better and giving more treatment options for those with a brain injury.

Conditions

• Injuries, Brain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mindfulness intervention	A 10 minute mindfulness of breath exercise
OTHER	Control intervention (unfocused attention)	A 10 minute unfocused attention intervention - participants are asked to let their mind wander on anything that comes to mind.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-31
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2017-07-27
• Last updated: 2017-08-11

Locations

12 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom